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Meanings of mechanical piano in English

Portuguese
pianola
Catalan
piano de manubri
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A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.

        pianola
        Synonyms
        Examples for "Pianola"
        Examples for "Pianola"
        1
        The same playful engagement with favourite musical things informs his 1982 Grand Pianola Music.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The Pianola Piano consisted of a player-piano mechanism fitted to a Steinway, Weber, Steck or Stroud piano.
        The Guardian
        3
        No one reproached me because I did not buy a four-hundred-dollar pianola.
        Humanly Speaking
        4
        In the corner was a pianola topped by piles of record-boxes.
        Hidden Creek
        5
        And when wheat is a dollar a bushel the farmers are buying pianolas.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
        1
        From the living room came the loud drumming of the player piano.
        Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
        2
        The Orchesterelle Company was not the only player piano-making outfit in London.
        The Guardian
        3
        By Stuart Jeffries In 1914, the player piano was the last word.
        The Guardian
        4
        She bought a player piano and her grandson played it to distraction.
        The new yorker
        5
        The player piano was belting out something with a jazzy beat.
        Escape
        Usage of mechanical piano in English
        1
        The mechanical piano in connection with the merry-go-round shrilled above the calls of vendors.
        Lydia of the Pines
        2
        There are different ways of playing a mechanical piano.
        Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
        3
        Looking for a substitute for Waldteufel, a clever chamberlain discovered the "Debain piano" ( mechanical piano).
        In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
        4
        Some one in the parlour was executing "After the Ball is Over" on a mechanical piano.
        The Blue Flower
        5
        From across the street came the bawdy thumping of a mechanical piano and the swish of a sluggish tide.
        The Blood Red Dawn
        6
        The mechanical piano near the door played through a valse cheekily, then fell silent all at once, as if gone grumpy.
        The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
        7
        Besides every species of Victophone and Olagraph, the music lover may muse upon the wonders and the variety of " mechanical piano players."
        Walking-Stick Papers
        8
        Then the mechanical piano which had stopped during the speech-making suddenly started up with a loud twang of "Under the Bamboo Tree."
        Lydia of the Pines
        9
        "The lesson was to be an hour, but somebody put a nickel in a mechanical piano, and the creature I was on started going sideways."
        Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
        10
        "I think I could eat," said Mrs. Bobbsey, then the mechanical piano player was started, and the party made their way to the dining room.
        The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore
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        pianola